The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league clubs in Australasia.
Run by the Australian Rugby League Commission, however, there has not been a league-wide Reserve Grade competition since 1988, when the former New South Wales Rugby League expanded interstate to make the first attempt at a national competition, with the NRL Reserve Grade competition being shut down at the end of the 2002 season.
As a result, NRL-listed players who are not selected in their senior teams are made eligible to play in one of the second-tier state leagues: the New South Wales Cup or the Queensland Cup.
The system used to accommodate NRL-listed players within these leagues varies considerably from state to state.
In the 2024 season, the seventeen National Rugby League clubs will have the following reserves arrangements.